Notes on Time

[CroakerDogBoy]

Galactic Standard Time (GST) is the most popular
time system in the Frontier. The GST system uses
hours, minutes and seconds. An hour is 60 minutes
long, a minute is 60 seconds long. A second is
defined as the length of time needed for a beam of
light to travel 300,000 km through a vacuum.
One year in Galactic Standard Time is 8,000 hours
long. A standard year is divided into 400 20-hour
days. Each day is divided into a 1 0-hour work
period and a 1 0-hour rest period. These
standardized days and years are used mainly for
record-keeping.
Besides Galactic Standard Time, many planets have
their own local time system. These local systems
use GST seconds, minutes and hours, but the length
of the day and year varies from planet to planet.
The length of a local day is the time it takes for the
planet to rotate through one complete day/night
cycle. A local day usually is divided into equal
periods of light and darkness, although these can
vary if the planet's axis is tilted in relation to its
orbit. A local year is the length of time the planet
takes to make one complete revolution around its
star.

My own interpretations and calcuations
A Galactic Standard Week is 8 twenty hour days.
There are 50 weeks in a year.
There are 10 five week months in a year.

Names of the days of the week are:
FirstDay
SecondDay
etc.

Names of the months are:
FirstMonth etc.

So the first day of Galactic Standard Year 531, would be written as FirstDay, FirstMonth, 531. Or shorthand would be 01:01:531

Any questions?